Posted on 07/14/2026 8:19:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
There is a pretty pervasive and consistent assumption in our long history of UFO sightings: that the unidentified objects some of us see in the night sky are vehicles or crafts inside of which are what we're really interested in—the aliens themselves. But what if this assumption is mistaken? What if the craft or vehicle itself is what's alien?
UFOs are like mirrors for human nature
The long history of UFO sightings in the world, taken as a whole, can act as a reflecting pool for our often subconscious beliefs and assumptions. The term "flying saucer" has been around since the late 1940s, when a private pilot named Kevin Arnold reported seeing something fitting that description in the skies over Mount Rainier in Washington state. The moniker stuck because it seems to aptly describe what so many people since then have described seeing in the night sky. UFO sightings often involve a disk-shaped object in the sky, sometimes with lights or doors or other hardware that suggest the object opens to allow for entry and exit. But of what or whom?
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Could the UFO crafts be the aliens? Why not? I think it's interesting that we assume the objects we see in the sky and admit are "unidentified" are nevertheless assumed to be the vehicle and not the being itself. How would we know?
Some more far-out hypotheses suggest these crafts are some manifestation of ourselves (humans) from the future visiting current reality. .... perhaps these UFOs are programs that are briefly rendered real (as in taking on physical form) as they dip into our "reality" almost like a 3D-printed object, which begins as an idea and takes form as it's "printed."
(Excerpt) Read more at psychologytoday.com ...
Nomad. VGER.
“In space no one can hear you scream.”
Alien 1979
from the Google AI:
“Copywriter Barbara Gips wrote the famous tagline “In space no one can hear you scream” for the 1979 science-fiction horror film Alien. She came up with the legendary eight-word phrase while washing dishes to help market the movie.”
People always assume “we” don’t have anything that can do what it’s doing. That “we” know of.
People used to report weird maneuvers from strange looking craft “we” couldn’t have. It was the Stealth Fighter test flights using computers as pilots to test ability in the design.
Wish I could take credit, but I'm pretty sure I stole it from somewhere, so steal away. It's true!
There is that - the possibilities seem endless.
Perhaps an exploratory drone programed to seek out "live" planets and report home immediately any findings. One that if "caught" would disclose its record of findings, lend itself to carbon dating and test off the charts.
The physics of the energy needed to get to here from another galaxy or even from inside our galaxy is so large, it is impossible.
Maybe she's right or maybe she's wrong.
But this is a hypothesis worth considering.
Atheist Stephen Hawking believed that intelligent alien life almost certainly exists.
However, he strongly warned humanity against actively trying to make contact or broadcast signals into space.
He famously cautioned that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations might be “nomadic conquerors” looking to plunder Earth for its resources.
He compared a potential encounter to Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas.
Some of these stories go way, way back.
So do Vampire stories.
Keep a cross and garlic handy
It went from cruising along at maybe 30 MPH to a parabolic upward escape in a fraction of a second.
Unless there is some sort of dampening field in play, any biologics would have been turned to jelly by the g-forces.
Given enough time, a space-faring civilization could colonize the entire galaxy within just a few million years—a mere blink of an eye in cosmic history.
Wow. No wonder you're anti-Israel. You think the Hebrew Bible is mythology.
I take it all those "indigenous" chrstians the Israelis are "oppressing" believe likewise?
Stupid America hater——get off this site.
No one wants hate-filled posters here.
Exactly. UFOs certainly exist - there are flying objects that people can't identify. That's not evidence of aliens, it's evidence of people not knowing what they're looking at. The "legitimate" cases are probably Skunkworks experimental aircraft, the rest are hoaxes, tall tales, and people misinterpreting something completely mundane like meteors, weather balloons, etc.
Those who take alien spacecraft visiting Earth seriously are in the same category as those obsessed with finding Bigfoot/Sasquatch or seeing the Mothman. You can try pointing out to them that even if you built a spacecraft that could approach the speed of light, it would take centuries to get from our solar system to those that might have habitable planets, but it does no good. As with the Sasquatch "I believe" crowd, these things fill some kind of emotional need for many people.
“...when a private pilot named Kevin Arnold reported...”
Ummm...who?
Nice catch. I skimmed right over that. Should be Kenneth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting
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